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Louisiana State Penitentiary is the location of the State of Louisiana's male death row and execution chamber. Capital punishment is a legal penalty in the U.S. state of Louisiana. Despite remaining a legal penalty, there have been no executions in Louisiana since 2010, and no involuntary executions since 2002.
The following is a list of people executed by the U.S. state of Louisiana since capital punishment was resumed in the United States in 1976. A total of 28 people convicted of murder have been executed by the state of Louisiana since 1976. Of the 28 people executed, 20 were executed via electrocution and 8 via lethal injection.
Attorney General Lynn Fitch's office has requested an execution date. [271] Charles Ray Crawford Tippah: Final petition for a writ of certiorari denied by the United States Supreme Court on February 24, 2014. [272] Attorney General Lynn Fitch's office has requested an execution date. [273] Willie Jerome Manning: Oktibbeha
Subsequently, a majority of states enacted new death penalty statutes, and the court affirmed the legality of the practice in the 1976 case Gregg v. Georgia. Since then, more than 8,500 defendants have been sentenced to death; [9] [10] of these, more than 1,605 have been executed. [11] [12] [13] Most executions are carried out by states. [3]
The New Orleans coroner's office has identified all but one of the 14 people killed when the driver of a white pickup truck sped down Bourbon Street packed with holiday revelers early on New Year's Day. The cause of death for all of the victims was “blunt force injuries," the coroner said in an email Friday. The 14 victims of the New Orleans ...
Death Penalty Worldwide: Archived 2013-11-13 at the Wayback Machine Academic research database on the laws, practice, and statistics of capital punishment for every death penalty country in the world. Smile of death: China History Punishment
Texas has executed the most inmates of any other state in the nation, and it's not even close. The Lone Star state has put 591 inmates to death since 1982, most recently Garcia Glen White on Oct. 1.
Jim Mowrer and his wife, Nicole, snapped a photo early morning Jan. 1, 2025, in New Orleans' French Quarter about 30 minutes before an attack killed at least 14 people and injured dozens more.